Access properties file programmatically with Spring?

Question

We use the code below to inject Spring beans with properties from a properties file.

Answer 1

You can get your properties through Environment class. As documentation stands:

Properties play an important role in almost all applications, and may originate from a variety of sources: properties files, JVM system properties, system environment variables, JNDI, servlet context parameters, ad-hoc Properties objects, Maps, and so on. The role of the environment object with relation to properties is to provide the user with a convenient service interface for configuring property sources and resolving properties from them.

Having Environment as a env variable, simply call:

env.resolvePlaceholders("${your-property:default-value}")

You can get your 'raw' properties through:

env.getProperty("your-property")

It will search through all properties source that spring has registered.

You can either obtain Environment through:

• inject ApplicationContext by implementing ApplicationContextAware and then call getEnvironment() on context
• implement EnvironmentAware.

It's obtain through implementation of a class because properties are resolved on early stage of application startup, as they may be required for bean construction.

Read more on documentation: spring Environment documentation